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This data article presents a dataset for Siswati, a Bantu language of the Nguni group that is one of the eleven official South African languages and the official language of Eswatini (together with English). The dataset contains parallel textual data between English and Siswati as well as monolingual data for Siswati and was developed for use as training data for machine translation systems, specifically the Autshumato machine translation project. Both corpora can also be used for development and evaluation of Natural Language Processing (NLP) core technologies for Siswati. In addition, the data lends itself for corpus linguistic studies. The article describes how the data was collected, what type of texts it contains and what clean-up was done. It also provides an overview of the number of words contained in the datasets.
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This data article presents a linguistically annotated data set for four official South African languages with a conjunctive orthography, namely isiNdebele, isiXhosa, isiZulu and Siswati. The data set is parallel for all four languages and can be used for language-specific as well as cross-language development and evaluation of Natural Language Processing (NLP) core technologies. In addition, it can be used for corpus linguistic studies. The article describes how the data was collected, what type of texts it contains and it provides some details on the three different types of linguistic annotation added (morphology, part-of-speech and lemmas), including an example.
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This data article describes the Autshumato machine translation evaluation set. The evaluation set contains data that can be used to evaluate machine translation systems between any of the 11 official South African languages. The dataset is parallel with four reference translations available for each of the following languages: Afrikaans, English, isiNdebele, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana, Siswati, Tshivenda and Xitsonga.
